When Roland Etcheverry joined chemical company Champion Technologies Inc. two years ago, he looked around and realized he needed to remake the company’s storage environment. He had done this twice ...

Converting systems with large amounts of storage has always been a tricky task. Frequently, there are limited amounts of quiet time to convert these systems. This can be made even more difficult when ...

Sue Poremba is a freelance writer focusing primarily on security and technology issues and occasionally blogs for Rackspace Hosting. Cloud block storage is a new way of thinking about how you store ...

Q: Whats the difference between “storage virtualization” and “file virtualization”? A: At one level pretty much everything in storage these days is virtualized to some degree. Low level standards like ...

The term "bit bucket" is used to reference agnostic physical storage, usually on disk drives, that can be utilized as a repository for all sorts of data in almost any range of formats. The data bits ...

Spectra Logic has launched Vail, a hybrid and multicloud object storage overlay that customers can use to create a single pool of storage between almost any onsite and cloud-based storage. The company ...

In the first week of May, three storage vendors announced enhancements or plans for products that support storage virtualization. The three announcements from VERITAS, EMC, and IBM are signs of the ...

The big news is Dell’s release of APEX Block Storage for Microsoft Azure, which follows the release of Dell’s similar solution for Amazon Web Services (AWS) back in May. This is a nice milestone along ...

EMC’s introductions this week of its Elastic Cloud Storage Appliance (ECS) and of ViPR 2.0, the latest generation of its enterprise storage virtualization software, are two sides of the same coin. ECS ...

Although the server virtualisation market is still dominated by one player – VMware Inc. -- competitors of VMware are attempting to capitalize on growing friction between the market leader and the ...